Server Side Includes (SSI) is a list of directives that will permit you to incorporate the content of a text file inside an HTML file. In this manner, you're able to add some content to few different webpages on your site and adjust it just by modifying an individual text file. You're able to additionally incorporate the output of different scripts so that the present date and time, the IP address of the visitor or the properties of a file appear on your site. This shall let you add in some dynamic content to static web pages, making the site more desirable to your site visitors and creating a much more professional visual appearance. It will also be simpler to revise this content as compared to updating every static page one at a time. If you wish to use Server Side Includes in your site, the pages that contain the content of some file need to be with extension .shtml.
Server Side Includes in Cloud Web Hosting
Server Side Includes is supported on our modern cloud hosting platform, so no matter the Linux cloud web hosting you choose, it will be easy to make use of this feature and make your site much more dynamic. Everything you have to do is to create a file called .htaccess in the main folder for the domain or subdomain where you would like to use SSI and then include a few lines of code inside it. You won't require any kind of coding skills however, as you're able basically copy the needed code from the help section, or our tech support team can assist you to enable SSI for any specified site. You just have to modify the extension of the html file that will employ Server Side Includes to .shtml and make certain that all links to those web pages on the site are correct.
Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Hosting
It won't take you more than a moment to enable Server Side Includes when you have a semi-dedicated server package from us. When you choose to activate this function, you have to make an .htaccess file in the root folder for the domain or subdomain where you want SSI to be enabled. In this file, you have to copy some code, which you'll find in the FAQ article we have dedicated to SSI. You can get the latter in the Help area of your Hosting Control Panel, so you don't require any prior knowledge about such things. The only 2 things you should deal with are renaming all of web pages that shall use Server Side Includes from .html to .shtml and editing every one of the links on your site, to ensure that they lead to the renamed files.